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Committed: Thu Nov 8 07:46:34 2007 UTC (16 years, 4 months ago) by michael
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1 adx 30 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2    
3 knight 31 $Id$
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5 michael 918 Copyright (c) 1997-2007 IRCD-Hybrid Development Team
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7     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
8    
9     +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
10     | Note for those who don't bother reading docs: |
11     | |
12     | Reading INSTALL is now a must, as the old DPATH is now specified when |
13     | configure is run. |
14     | |
15     | - You now need to ./configure --prefix="/path/to/install/it" as a |
16     | minimum. Try ./configure --help or read this file for more info on |
17     | the possible options you can pass to configure. |
18     | |
19     | - Important: The old config format WILL NOT WORK. Please see point 7! |
20     +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
21    
22     ***** EFNET NOTE *****
23     You should run ./configure with the option '--enable-efnet' to tweak
24     some options to be EFNet based. You must also use the example.efnet.conf
25     instead of example.conf.
26     **********************
27    
28     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
29    
30     HOW TO BUILD
31    
32     As of hybrid-4, the distribution uses GNU autoconf instead of the old
33     Config script. You must run ./configure before you can (sanely) build
34     ircd-hybrid.
35    
36 michael 918 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
37 michael 920 this version. Other good reads are BUGS, etc/example.conf, and
38     README.FIRST.
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40     An example.conf for EFnet is in etc/ with the values "approved" as of
41     October 12th, 2003 called example.efnet.conf.
42    
43 michael 918 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
44 adx 30 Makefiles to match your system. In hybrid-7, the paths are now handled
45     with the --prefix option to configure.
46     /usr/local/ircd is the default if no prefix is specified.
47    
48     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ircd
49    
50     The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
51     your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
52     undefined results:
53    
54     * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
55 michael 555 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
56 adx 30 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
57    
58     * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
59 michael 555 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
60 adx 30 option.
61    
62 michael 555 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
63     currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
64     later.
65    
66 adx 30 * --enable-rtsigio - Enable the superior Linux RealTime Signal I/O
67 michael 555 system. This is currently only available on 2.4 Linux kernel
68 adx 30 versions or later.
69    
70     * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
71    
72     * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
73    
74     Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
75 michael 555 detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
76 adx 30 enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
77    
78     * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
79     This will allow CHALLENGE to work and encrypted links. On systems
80     where the configure script can automatically detect OpenSSL, this
81 michael 555 option is not necessary. If configure cannot find OpenSSL, you
82 adx 30 must specify a path with this option
83     (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
84    
85     These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
86    
87 michael 555 * --disable-shared-modules - Disable module support. This option is
88 adx 30 more secure, but reduces a lot of the flexibility in hybrid-7.
89     This may need to be used on some systems without a working
90     dlopen/dlsym.
91    
92 michael 555 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
93 adx 30 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
94     so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
95    
96     * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
97     are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
98     may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
99     set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
100    
101     * --enable-small-net - Tunes the server for smaller networks by
102     reducing the startup memory footprint. This should really only be
103     used for *small* networks, as this tends to be a performance hit
104     on larger networks.
105    
106     * --enable-syslog=kill/squit/connect/users/oper, separated by
107     spaces, in quotes - Enables syslog logging, with events you specify
108     (none is okay too, and logs the most essential messages only.)
109    
110     * --enable-syslog-facility=FACILITY - Check with your sysadmin to see
111     what this should be; by default it is LOG_LOCAL4. If you get it wrong
112     initially, no problem; just edit the value in include/setup.h.
113    
114     * --with-nicklen,
115     --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
116     maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
117     entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
118    
119     * --disable-zlib - Build the ircd without ziplinks support.
120    
121     * --disable-gline-voting - This is good for small networks or where
122     G-Line voting is not necessary. Please understand that by disabling
123     this, it will allow any operator with G-Line permissions to G-Line
124     someone without requiring the approval of 2 other operators. However,
125     it is useful if you use proxy scanners or services that do G-Lines.
126    
127     3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
128    
129     4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules(1), and tools
130     in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
131    
132     (1) Unless the server was compiled without module support.
133    
134     5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
135     contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
136    
137     6. If you wish to enable the user log, oper log, and failed oper log,
138     kill log, kline log and the gline log issue these commands at the
139     shell prompt (in the prefix directory).
140    
141     $ touch logs/userlog
142     $ touch logs/operlog
143     $ touch logs/foperlog
144     $ touch logs/kill
145     $ touch logs/kline
146     $ touch logs/gline
147    
148     Note: If you use different names in ircd.conf, you must 'touch'
149     their specific names.
150    
151     7. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
152     have changed drastically...
153    
154     By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
155     named dline.conf, the xline file is called xline.conf, and the gline
156     file is called gline.conf.
157    
158     The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
159     cresv.conf.
160    
161     The oper motd file is named opers.motd.
162    
163     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
164    
165     HOW TO GET HELP
166    
167     - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
168     support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
169     fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
170     or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
171     incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
172     on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
173     the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
174    
175     - http://forum.ircd-hybrid.org/
176     We decided to create a phpBB-like forum about ircd-hybrid, where you
177     can get help from coders and admins, post your suggestions, modules etc.
178    
179     - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
180     Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
181    
182     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
183    
184     NOTES
185    
186     The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
187     instructions:
188    
189     1. Change to the directory containing the core file
190    
191 michael 918 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified Hybrid-7.2
192 adx 30 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
193     directory)
194    
195     $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
196    
197    
198     3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
199    
200     4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
201     bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
202    
203     5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
204     safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
205     provides.

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